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Dr. George Howard Bell, who has been appointed to the chair of physiology in University College, Dundee, is a graduate of the University of Glasgow, where he had a distinguished career in both the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Medicine, gaining the M.B. degree with honours in 1930 and, later, the higher degree of M.D., also with honours. For the thesis which he presented for the latter degree he was awarded a Bellahouston Gold Medal. After graduation, Dr. Bell spent a period in clinical appointments before entering upon an academic career in physiology, and he has always maintained a close interest in clinical problems. He gave a considerable amount of voluntary hospital service during the War. A year ago he was elected a fellow of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Prof. Bell's career as a physiologist began with his appointment as an assistant in the Glasgow University Institute of Physiology. This assistantship was followed by a lectureship at the University of Bristol, after which he returned to Glasgow as senior lecturer in physiology. His research interests have been concerned in the main with problems in the physiology of parturition and of reproduction in general; with the significance of capillary fragility tests; and, most recently, with the effect of various factors on the physical strength of bone. Many of these studies are notable for, and indeed have depended for their success upon, the development of new techniques and on the design and construction of novel apparatus; and quite apart from strictly physiological research, Dr. Bell has issued many valuable papers on new and improved methods and apparatus, and on the application of nomograms to physiological and clinical calculations, His practical text-book on experimental physiology has gained acceptance not only in Glasgow out also in several other medical schools.
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Physiology at University College, Dundee: Prof. G. H. Bell. Nature 160, 291 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160291a0
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